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[Lacan2]

I saw many people asking how well DA did sales wise. Here is a report for the month of November. Keep in mind, this does not represent any PC sales, which presumably (hopefully) are selling better.

1) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (360) / Activision / 4,200,000
2) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3) / Activision / 1,870,000
3) New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii) / Nintendo / 1,390,000
4) Assassin's Creed II (360) / Ubisoft / 794,700
5) Left 4 Dead 2 (360) / Electronic Arts / 744,000
6) Wii Sports Resort (Wii) / Nintendo / 720,200
7) Wii Fit Plus (Wii) / Nintendo / 679,000
8) Assassin's Creed II (PS3) / Ubisoft / 448,400
9) Dragon Age: Origins (360) / Electronic Arts / 362,100
10) Mario Kart Wii (Wii) / Nintendo / 315,000


Source: http://www.gamespot....adlines;title;1

This surprised me. Assassin's Creed is mostly a consol game, but even still I did not expect it to sell so much better than DAO. And Assassin's Creed was released on Nov 17, while DAO was released on Nov 3; it had 2 more weeks of sales.

edit: always nice when none of the script works on this &^*^& website, and everything has huge spaces.

Modifié par Lacan2, 11 décembre 2009 - 09:18 .

[Taleroth]

Assassin's Creed is an incredible game. The fact that DAO is on the top 10 is doing well.

[Dahelia]

Most people bought it for the PC...maybe that is why it is doing so bad???

[Skellimancer]

Well of course it isn't doing well.



It isn't a FPS.

[Lacan2]

Assassin's Creed is a great game, and a great series. But still, to come in at less than half sales for the month when they had twice as long to sell it. Ouch.

I'm hoping it did waaaaaaay better on PC.

Modifié par Lacan2, 11 décembre 2009 - 09:21 .

[wonko33]

does that include collector's edition?

[Navy_Spitfire]

I'm surprised it surpassed 100,000

[ourlorderic]

It was a bad month to launch what with the release of Assassin's Creed II, COD and left 4 dead 2. This is a brand new franchise and the month it was released it was against 3 sequels to some very big franchises. It will sell more as the months go on and when we get DA2 it will have great sales.

[SheffSteel]

Assassin's Creed is a sequel to a successful console game that is by all accounts a significant improvement. As such, it'd be expected to sell very quickly, particularly compared to a new title that really appeals more to PC gamers. I don't imagine that the third and fourth week of sales for DAO amounted to much compared to the first two, so it's hardly surprising that the figures are so different.
PC figures would be interesting to see. Mind you, there should be a much longer tail on the PC sales.

Modifié par SheffSteel, 11 décembre 2009 - 09:29 .

[Jerret]

Okay, yeah.

Every game above DA:O on that list is a AAA heavy-hitting title. Some probably even deserve to be higher.

I don't know if the sales figures for PC would be too much grander though. But I am open to being surprised. MW2 exploded on the consoles but is only doing so-so on the PC. I bought it on PC and I'm surprised when there's more than 20,000 playing a Deathmatch game. My friend who has it on console saw 750,000 playing Deathmatch on a....Wednesday....during the day...

Anyway, Dragon Age is doing okay. I only hope it met development costs.

EDIT: Also keep in mind it is the consumer holiday season and sales will probably spike for it (and most other games) in December and January.

Modifié par Jerret, 11 décembre 2009 - 09:32 .

[Dex1701]

In the top 10 = good. How is this bad? Didn't everyone expect MW2 to be the top seller, along with two of the handful of playable Wii games?

With all of the akshun!lolololol11111!!! kids trashing DA:O for not being action-y enough I'd say it's doing pretty well.

Modifié par Dex1701, 11 décembre 2009 - 09:34 .

[Bibdy]

The RPG-gamer market is small on consoles (though apparently enough to lower texture quality in the game to be able to market it on consoles). I imagine the PC figures will put things into perspective.



I dunno about the Assassin's Creed franchise being that great...I played into the 2nd major area and mary mother of god that game was repetitive.

[dmcguk]

they are retail figures so it wouldnt cover digital sales where DA sold pretty well

[Randy1012]

Honestly, since this was a game originally designed to be played specifically on the PC, and is still treated as a PC-first game, 360,000+ units sold for the Xbox is pretty darn good. There was no way it was going to come close to Modern Warfare 2 or Assassin's Creed II, two of the most anticipated games of the year. I'm sure it's sold even better on the PC.

[MerinTB]

In the top ten and not doing well. Not this reasoning again.



"Jurassic Park bombed. What a fail. It's only the 12th highest grossing film of all time, and it came out four years before number 1 Titanic but even with a 4 year head-start Jurassic Park did only half the box office. FAIL."



Seriously? Do you think the makers of Assassin's Creed 2 are sensing failure because MW2 over quadrupled their sales?

[adastrum]

Bibdy wrote...

The RPG-gamer market is small on consoles (though apparently enough to lower texture quality in the game to be able to market it on consoles). I imagine the PC figures will put things into perspective.

I dunno about the Assassin's Creed franchise being that great...I played into the 2nd major area and mary mother of god that game was repetitive.

The sequel addressed that issue. Thats part of the reason its doing so well.

Did we expect any different? PC sales are where this game is going to make its dollars.

[Catsith]

OP, It sold about 550,880 in North America for both consoles for november, all editions. Add in PC retail, DD, worldwide and DLC sales and it's quite good actually for an oldschool fantasy RPG, and considering they only started heavily marketing and showing off the console versions very late. It'll probably do well throughout the holidays too.

[GHL_Soul_Reaver]

The first assassins creed really sucked when you got near to the end because everythign you had to do was re-doing what you had done everywhere else... which made it a very bad game experience for me yet though I completed it of course but never ever wanted to play it again as it was to easy to play through.. and then again the monotome same way to beat it.. do this and that favour.. kill some guys... find some info... no diversity... had more fun killing guards on purpose in the city and forcefully fighting through everything as it is... at least untill that got old as well.



For the seequal... it looks more promising than the first one, but looking for reviews of the game before buying this time, maybe even looking up walkthroughs for fast read over to see if it is just like the first one.



And yes I am going for PC only games as it is... console wise I can understand why DAO does not outstand as in the real stuff with this game comes with the PC variant as in it is the only way to get homemade enhancements and mods implented into the game which makes it a much better choice for PC... if we had Multiplayer in the PC variant for the player worlds and mods... then I would see a booming sale...



Also I am not recommending any of my friends or the communities that I am a part of to get the console version of this game mainly due to that you would get less than what you are paying for vs. what you can get if you are buying the PC version, mainly it is a toolset thing though that I recommend it only for PC.

[Adria Teksuni]

Top 10 is awesome. Go them!

MW 2 is a game that's been anticpated for YEARS and Assassin's Creed 2 had an INSANE marketing push. They had a 1 hour special for the game on Spike television, 100% paid for infomercial.

With the holidays coming, Mario is not surprising at all as it is a popular choice for family games. And L4D has a pretty huge following.

I think 9 is pretty darned respectable for a brand new, non-established RPG.

Modifié par Adria Teksuni, 11 décembre 2009 - 09:48 .

[Statisfaction]

Uh oh, this doesn't bode well for bringing popular mods over to consoles for the mere half million of us

[andybuiadh]

Someone above me put it perfectly.



If you want a good RPG nowadays, you get it for the PC. I hate to stereotype but alot of console gamers don't have the attention span for an immersive RPG like this. They prefer FPS' and sports games.

[spernus]

Dragon age should have enough legs to sell 2-3 million copies,which is excellent imo.

Honestly,you have 4 western developers with the ability and brand name to make a multi million rpg.Bethesda,Bioware,Lionhead studio(Fable) and Blizzard with Diablo.Obsidian still have much to prove and cd projekt need to release the Witcher 2 on consoles to see if they can expand and become a big western rpg player.

Modifié par spernus, 11 décembre 2009 - 09:50 .

[bzombo]

Akshara wrote...

All this confidence in the PC sales being better... maybe that will be the case, however I will be very surprised if they are much more than the console sales, all things considered.

if pc sales match the xbox sales, i think that would be good. that would mean 900k sales for a fantasy rpg that isn't fps style. i think the pc sales have got to be somewhere around at least xbox, just based on the dlc sales reaching $1 million so fast.